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The writer is Chairman, Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi.
POLITICS
| 6-minute read
Mudra scheme: Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to stop lying to the nation
The share of small loan accounts has been dropping steadily for over a decade and there is no sign of it moving upwards.
MONEY
| 4-minute read
Budget 2018: Did Arun Jaitley just sell us a lemon?
As usual, the government is just distracting us with promises and hoping to stave off the inevitable - popular discontent.
MONEY
| 6-minute read
Vijay Mallya isn't coming back, but he's not the villain who got away
We are forgetting the bankers who lent Kingfisher Airlines for something quite as spurious as its brand name.
POLITICS
| 9-minute read
1962 war: When Nehru decided to strike against China despite Army chief's advice
It was not timed to coincide with the Cuban missile crisis.
MONEY
| 6-minute read
Is the bullet train the silver bullet to save the Indian Railways?
The Kakodkar panel pegged the cost of implementing safety measures at about Rs 1 lakh crore. Even a fraction of that money could not be arranged.
POLITICS
| 6-minute read
Why Modi's Cabinet reshuffle, too, was not to improve the effectiveness of government
So much for experience, technocracy and professionalism.
POLITICS
| 9-minute read
The enduring legacy of John F Kennedy
53 years after, my thoughts go back to the morning I read about JFK's assassination in 'The Daily News', a defunct Hyderabad daily.
POLITICS
| 4-minute read
What if Kashmir had remained an independent state?
Imagine the consequences implicit for New Delhi, Islamabad and Beijing with the supposedly free state wedged in between them?
POLITICS
| 7-minute read
Do not go gentle into that good night, Modiji
The nearness of the end of life makes the leader, however powerful they might seem, a lame duck leader.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read